“I imagine this midnight moment’s forest: Something else is alive” “The Thought-Fox” encapsulates Alice Oswald’s view that Ted Hughes did not perform the poem as he read, but that “the poem performed him.” Hughes, she thought, was being played by his own music. This event, organised by Peter Howarth of the School of English and […]

Rosie Hunter from People’s Palace Project has been in touch with some key projects from People’s Palace Projects an independent arts charity based at Queen Mary University of London Upcoming events in London and Brazil Xingu Artistic Exchange: 10th-24th May 2017 including two seminars in Rio: 22nd May, Federal University of Rio – […]

Queer Fun: an ivory-tower vaudeville from Duckie and QMUL Royal Vauxhall Tavern Saturday 10 June 2017, 3-7pm Fun is a wide-ranging experience that has rarely been taken seriously by the academy or society. This is changing, with the publication of monographs on fun in the fields of sociology (Ben Fincham) and cultural studies (Alan McKee), […]

We were delighted that two projects led by our School staff have won awards at the QMUL Engagement and Enterprise Awards on Tuesday 7 February 2017. We caught up with Maggie Inchley and Morag Shiach to talk through their award-winning projects. Maggie Inchley gives us insight into The Verbatim Project, which won a Public […]

We’re excited to see that Jen Harvie has launched her new podcast series, which explores contemporary arts and culture with the people who make it. The first episode which you can listen to below is with Sh!t Theatre (QMUL graduates too!) who are currently performing at Soho Theatre until 11 February. Topics covered in the […]

Digital project brings together research from Queen Mary, Saint Louis University, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, the University of Illinois, Indiana University East, and the University of Cambridge As I began my research last year into the relationship between the poetry of Algernon Swinburne (1837-1909) and the operas of Richard Wagner (1813-1883), I […]

Our roving reporters Jenny Gault (Director of Administration) and Hari Marini (Student Administrator: Research Student Support) have been to explore the new Graduate Centre. The seven-storey building includes 7,700 square metres of new learning and teaching space. Here’s a quick collage of what they found: Clockwise from top left: Jenny outside the front of the […]

. A print only a few inches wide depicts a man wearing a loose flowing garment and a pointed hat. He reclines against a stone pediment, apparently engaged in romantic conversation with a similarly exotically dressed woman, who holds a fan in her right hand and – like the man – a cup in her […]

Stephanie Howard-Smith is researching her doctoral dissertation in the English Department at Queen Mary on the cultural history of the lapdog in eighteenth-century Britain. Over the last year, she has also helped to curate an exhibition related to her research entitled ‘Pug’s Progress: William Hogarth and Animals’ at Hogarth’s House museum. This blog post describes […]

The full programme for Being Human Festival led by University of London’s School of Advanced Study has been announced and is available to peruse to your heart’s content here. We’ve picked out a few events that caught our eye and feature some of our School of English and Drama connections: No Feedback People’s […]